20120727 January to April 2012

J.T. Anesi stirs two trays of sap, the tray on the left had already been reducing for hours and the tray on the right had just started. The sap reduces into syrup at about a forty-to-one ratio according to Anesi, who was volunteering at Maple Syrup Fest on Saturday, March 3, 2012 at the Russell Woods Forest Preserve in Genoa, Ill.